Talált 423 Eredmények: Baal's Altar
His altar-hearth Lebanon itself could not feed, victims could not yield enough for his burnt-sacrifice. (Isaiah 40, 16)
Free of the mountain that is my sanctuary, welcome guests in the house where men pray to me, not vainly to my altar they shall bring burnt-offering and sacrifice. Claimed my house shall be, for a house of prayer, by all the nations.✻ (Isaiah 56, 7)
Into thee all the herds of Cedar shall be driven, the rams of Nabaioth shall be thy victims; gifts at my altar accepted, to make the fame of my temple more famous yet. (Isaiah 60, 7)
Never a priest to ask where I, the Lord, was; never a man of law but made a stranger of me, never a ruler but played me false, never a prophet but took Baal for his oracle, and had recourse to powers that were impotent. (Jeremiah 2, 8)
theft, murder, adultery, the false oath, libations to Baal, the courting of alien gods that are no gods of yours, nothing comes amiss, (Jeremiah 7, 9)
Then, if they will but learn the traditions of my own people, and take their oaths by the Lord, the living God, as they once taught my people to take oaths by Baal, their fortunes shall be founded anew in the midst of Juda. (Jeremiah 12, 16)
indelible, while there are sons of theirs to remember where altar stood once and sacred tree, shrine in the thick forest, shrine on the high hills; (Jeremiah 17, 2)
For the prophets of Samaria how was it I lost all liking?✻ Because they were the spokesmen of Baal, and did but lead Israel astray, that was my people. (Jeremiah 23, 13)
Dreams bandied from mouth to mouth, for these would they have my people barter away the memory of me, as their fathers did for Baal? (Jeremiah 23, 27)
and set it alight, and burn all its houses to the ground; it was there, on the roof-tops, they sacrificed to Baal, and made offerings to alien gods in despite of me. (Jeremiah 32, 29)
Have they not made hill-shrines for Baal in the valley of Ben-Ennom, and there initiated son and daughter with Moloch-rites that were never of my bidding? No thought was it of mine that they should do this foul deed, which has brought guilt on Juda. (Jeremiah 32, 35)
Grown weary of his altar, from his own sanctuary turning away in abhorrence, the Lord has given up yonder embattled towers to the enemy; their cries ring through the temple like shout of holiday. (Lamentations 2, 7)
